Opera Mini was today submitted to Apple’s App Store. The software was announced at Mobile World Congress 2010 in February. Opera Software claims that their browser will perform up to six times faster than Safari.
Check out the full press release and video after the break.
According to analyst firm Gartner, Apple is totally dominating app sales. They account for 99.4% of the money made with mobile apps. In year 2009, they sold 2.5 billion apps, and $4.2 billion in app revenue.
In other words, all the other app stores account for only .6% of application purchases.
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It has only been 98 days, since Apple announced that their App Store had hit 2 billion downloads. Today, it hit three billion downloads. 1 billion downloads in 98 days, means that they are selling 350 apps each second, and 10 million apps a day. According to appshopper website, there are now 128,302 apps in the App Store.
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Apple is today rolling out an update to its iTunes App Store. The update will bring the individual apps to match the layout of iTunes 9, that was updated a few months ago. An individual page now shows only the two first lines of an app’s description, making it much more important for the developer to focus on these. The user is still able to hit a …More button to see the full description. Also the application icon is much bigger, multiple screen shots of the application will be shown and other applications by the same developer will be shown automatically.
And those of you who only need the U.S. maps of TomTom, head over to the app store before December 28th to get the application for $49.
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